happy - Story 60538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement. Sarah clutched the scholarship offer in her hands, her palms slightly slick with sweat. The letter felt electric, a promise of a future she'd barely dared to dream about. A wide smile spread across her face, and her eyes sparkled. The scholarship to the prestigious culinary school, her golden ticket. She had no time to waste.

She immediately started planning, envisioning herself mastering new techniques, creating dazzling dishes. She’d always wanted to travel, and now she could. She went straight to the kitchen to begin practicing.

Emotion: happy

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion happy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 happy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the happy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the happy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.676
`excitedly`	0.533
`enthusi`	0.505
`de`	0.498
`🤩`	0.495

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.896
`😞`	-0.430
`ness`	-0.410
`それでも`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379